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*A Call for Presentations:*

One–day Symposium Oct 19th 2019, followed by a one day workshop on Oct 20th
with Glenna Batson (US/IE)

Bath Spa University, Newton Park Campus, Bath (UK)

Key presenter Prof. Em. Glenna Batson
(US/IE)

Convenors Thomas Kampe & Mary Steadman, (Creative Corporealities Research
Group (CCRG), Bath Spa University)

This one-day symposium addresses issues around embodiment in learning,
education and performer training. Through practical explorations, academic
presentations, workshop sessions, artistic interaction and debate we will
explore how a somatic-turn in learning, education and training can
contribute to a meaningful and critical education to ‘humanize humanity’ (
Morin 1999:10 ) in the context of global and civilisatory crises. The
symposium will be followed by a one- day workshop by Glenna Batson. The
symposium and workshop will be held on the beautiful Newton Park Campus of
Bath Spa University, and is organised through the *Creative Corporealities
Research Group (CCRG) *located within the *Bath School of Music and
Performance.*

The convenor team invites educators, academics and artists to contribute to
this pertinent symposium through lectures, workshops, panel discussions
artistic presentations or alternative formats.

*Presentation formats: *20 minutes lecture presentations; 60 min or 90 min
workshops; 60 min panel discussions; 30 – 45 min artistic presentations.
Skype presentations and alternative formats of presentations are welcomed .

*Topics might include:*

Embodied and Enactivist Cognition and Pedagogies; Embodied Performance
Practices and Performer Training; New Materialism & Posthumanism;
Deconstruction and Embodiment; Somatic Activism & Applied Somatics; Touch
as Learning Modality; Agency, Empathy & Liveness; Somatic Performance
Cultures; Eco & Walking Arts; Embodying Gender; Critiquing Whiteness –
Decolonising Practice; Embodying Diversity; Embodiment in the Digital Age;
Eco-Somatics & Eco-Crisis; Re-Embodiment and Re-Empowerment; Movement and
Well-being in Education.

*Presenter fee: £ 35 / workshop fee £ 35 * – concessions are available. The
symposium will be self-funding.

Submission format : 250 words long proposal & 250 word biog

Deadline for proposals: 09/08/2019. Feedback by 23/08/2019

Please send proposals and biogs to:
t.kampe@bathspa.ac.uk

Best wishes

Thomas & Mary

Call for Participation

Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session

Goethe-Institut Glasgow

7-11 October 2019

An opportunity for shared learning and knowledge exchange for

Emerging ARTISTS and RESEARCHERS

based in the UK and internationally, working in the wider field of

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

What is the Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session about?

Artificial Intelligence is one of the great technological innovation of our times. It comes with extraordinary opportunities but the impact and changes, good or bad, induced by the new technology are not yet completely gauged. Currently, the main drivers behind development and use of AI are entities with an economic focus. From facial recognition to deep fakes influencing politics and care-giving robots; a distinctive cultural perspective with an agency regarding a humane and sustainable future society is still mostly missing.

Possible starting points for discussions and critical thinking at the Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session could be:

– Bias in AI – how history haunts the present and the future

– Privileging of marginalised perspectives and zones

– Material entanglement of animals, machines and the planet

– Countering dominant filters

– Direct witnessing and speculative practices in opposition to disinformation

– Affective interfaces; Sourcing and categorising of datasets

– Facts vs. probability and prediction

– Role of language and metaphor in defining the development and use of AI

– Ownership and rights; human, natural, robotic and other

– Distribution of benefits derived from pervasive technologies

Hosted by the Goethe-Institut in Glasgow, the Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session is directed at emerging artists and researchers in the fields of arts and humanities as well as computer science, robotics and neuroscience, who are at the cutting edge of research into AI and its implications. The aim is to inspire common intersectional perspectives and develop alternative narratives and to enable a deep learning experience and exchange of different perspectives within the field of AI. The Session seeks to enable, connect and support emerging artists and researchers.

Confirmed expert contributors include Anna Ridler (Artist), Eva Jäger (Artist) and Lorena Jaume-Palasí (Co-founder Algorithm Watch).

What does the Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session offer?

The Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session will be a four-day session for a group of 15-20 international artists and researchers. The Session will be an intensive period of exchange, play, creation and learning amongst emerging artists and researchers. It will include provocations and workshops by leading artists, thinkers and researchers in the field of AI, offer opportunities to share and discuss your own work as well as facilitate exchange in larger and smaller group formats to enable a deep learning experience.

The Session will be held in English.

For successful applicants the Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session will cover the costs of return travel to Glasgow, accommodation as well as meals during the day.

Practical details and how to apply

The Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session will run from 7-11 of October 2019.

To apply, applicants must submit the following:

*

Expression of Interest: Why do you want to take part in the AI Autumn Session? (500 words Practice/Research Statement: How does AI feature in your artistic practice and /or critical thinking? You may also include samples of previous work: max 10 images, 4 video links)

*

CV with full Contact Details (including telephone, email, mobile number and address)

Please submit the above as part of a single PDF file entitled “Autumn Institute AI” along with your full name (e.g. ‘Autumn Institute AI-Full Name.pdf’) to:

AI.Autumn-Session@goethe.de

Application Deadline is 5 August 2019, 5pm (GMT)

Cultural practitioners and emerging scientists will be selected in recognition of their proposal’s compatibility with the aims of the Session.

The selection panel will include representatives from the Goethe-Institut London, Glasgow and external project curators. The successful cultural practitioners and scientists will be notified by 16 August 2019.

 

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Call for Papers – Themed Issue on ‘Axes of Oppression in the Cultural Sector’ – IPED International Journal

The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity (IPED) international journal invites submissions to a special issue<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipedjournal.com%2F2019%2F05%2F07%2Fcfp-themed-issue-on-axes-of-oppression-in-the-cultural-sector-iped-international-journal%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=AZB4KBdvWk7wiWwQdEEyveuKMGeW2bCtdyhxgGthATg%3D&amp;reserved=0> titled: ‘Innovations, Intersections, and Institutions: Axes of Oppression in the Cultural Sector’.

There has been an increasingly visible discourse on diversity — and more precisely, the lack of it — in many cultural sectors across the Global North, particularly in major global ventures such as Hollywood (Hunt et al. 2019) and through national reporting practices (DCMS 2016). This increased awareness is usually followed by discursive calls to increase diversity in cultural institutions, as in the Arts Council England’s “Creative Case for Diversity” and various institutional initiatives in the US, Australia and others, which have been launched in the last decade. Furthermore, there have been many activist calls to decolonise public spaces and cultural practices, which are starting to make an impact on institutional practices.

However, the term diversity is a problematic one that often fails to account for the importance of the intersectionality of multiple axes of oppression and the interplay of varied social constructs such as race/ethnicity and gender, religion, sexuality, class, disability, and so on. Moreover, institutional diversity initiatives are typically the result of an institution being reactive to short-term funding calls or political agendas, and ultimately fail to address structural inequalities or understand the artistic and economic value of diverse artists and content.

Artistic works that negotiate these intersections — of oppression and marginalisation — often offer fertile ground for innovative artistic processes to address the complexity of their subject matter and challenge the hegemonic nature of the cultural sector. This special issue is interested in highlighting these artistic negotiations, creative processes, and survival strategies, as well as the contributions of ethnic minority and decolonial artists, that unsettle hegemonic structures in the Global North. A particular emphasis is on articulating and unpacking, in artistic and ethnographic detail (Conquergood 1985), these creative processes and the negotiations that marginalised artists/voices undertake while they are creating new work.

Further, this special issue recognises the ongoing reinvention and regeneration of the cultural sectors in the Global North, while aiming to examine the grassroots efforts that are contributing to these changes. These efforts could refer to new economic, artistic, and/or social initiatives that are revitalising the sector from the bottom up. We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines including cultural studies, performance studies, sociology, and anthropology that take the form of articles (4000-6000 words) or reflections (1000-2000 words) in response to one or more of the following questions:

1) Using recent attempts to diversify cultural institutions in the Global North as a point of departure, what processual value does the mainstreaming of marginalised artists/voices add to the cultural sector as a whole?
2) How do multiple axes of oppression manifest in creative artistic processes?
3) What strategies of survival do marginalised artists/voices use to create and showcase work in a cultural space dominated by hegemonic institutions?
4) Through engaging cultural production, how have marginalised artists/voices instigated institutional and structural change?
5) How do the recent calls to decolonise culture and public spaces contribute to imagining alternative cultural spaces, and generating new modes of cultural production?

Abstracts (250 words) with a title and a short bio (100 words) should be sent to the editors: Roaa (roaa.ali@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:roaa.ali@manchester.ac.uk>) and Asif (asif.majid@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:asif.majid@manchester.ac.uk>) by 1st of September 2019. We expect that contributors will submit first drafts by February 2020, but we are happy to extend this – please let us know and we can negotiate a new submission date. After receiving editorial and peer-reviewed feedback, second drafts are due by July 2020, with an expected publication date of September 2020. We may be able to accept submissions in languages other than English, please contact Roaa for more details or if you have any questions.

The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.hw.ac.uk%2Findex.php%2FIPED%2Findex&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=OgAOd7EEypXV4ua1%2FjY1LRWrsDU0INgUL0BhTj190%2FY%3D&amp;reserved=0> (IPED) <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.hw.ac.uk%2Findex.php%2FIPED%2Findex&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=OgAOd7EEypXV4ua1%2FjY1LRWrsDU0INgUL0BhTj190%2FY%3D&amp;reserved=0> is an open access journal open to academics and practitioners globally.

References
Conquergood, Dwight. 1985. “Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance.” Literature in Performance 5 (2): 1–13. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1080%2F10462938509391578&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=bGqfAWG37P7wK8gb91e6w3aKBcrx4kJhcnNlfXIJi6M%3D&amp;reserved=0
Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS). 2016. “Creative industries: Focus on Employment”. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F534305%2FFocus_on_Employment_revised_040716.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=FvhXhjtiuWRg0nqNVC4cqFV6X2%2BUDDaYb8iS8UdieF4%3D&amp;reserved=0
Hunt, Darnell, Ana-Christina Ramón, and Michael Tran. 2019. “Hollywood Diversity Report.” UCLA. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsocialsciences.ucla.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FUCLA-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2019-2-21-2019.pdfhttps%3A%2F%2Fsocialsciences.ucla.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FUCLA-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2019-2-21-2019.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=qze0DWDtG5sNYoVJmOGIsHfhkwZbi2AkMM4uxDHRQOU%3D&amp;reserved=0

Call for Papers – Themed Issue on ‘Axes of Oppression in the Cultural Sector’ – IPED International Journal

The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity (IPED) international journal invites submissions to a special issue<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipedjournal.com%2F2019%2F05%2F07%2Fcfp-themed-issue-on-axes-of-oppression-in-the-cultural-sector-iped-international-journal%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=AZB4KBdvWk7wiWwQdEEyveuKMGeW2bCtdyhxgGthATg%3D&amp;reserved=0> titled: ‘Innovations, Intersections, and Institutions: Axes of Oppression in the Cultural Sector’.

There has been an increasingly visible discourse on diversity — and more precisely, the lack of it — in many cultural sectors across the Global North, particularly in major global ventures such as Hollywood (Hunt et al. 2019) and through national reporting practices (DCMS 2016). This increased awareness is usually followed by discursive calls to increase diversity in cultural institutions, as in the Arts Council England’s “Creative Case for Diversity” and various institutional initiatives in the US, Australia and others, which have been launched in the last decade. Furthermore, there have been many activist calls to decolonise public spaces and cultural practices, which are starting to make an impact on institutional practices.

However, the term diversity is a problematic one that often fails to account for the importance of the intersectionality of multiple axes of oppression and the interplay of varied social constructs such as race/ethnicity and gender, religion, sexuality, class, disability, and so on. Moreover, institutional diversity initiatives are typically the result of an institution being reactive to short-term funding calls or political agendas, and ultimately fail to address structural inequalities or understand the artistic and economic value of diverse artists and content.

Artistic works that negotiate these intersections — of oppression and marginalisation — often offer fertile ground for innovative artistic processes to address the complexity of their subject matter and challenge the hegemonic nature of the cultural sector. This special issue is interested in highlighting these artistic negotiations, creative processes, and survival strategies, as well as the contributions of ethnic minority and decolonial artists, that unsettle hegemonic structures in the Global North. A particular emphasis is on articulating and unpacking, in artistic and ethnographic detail (Conquergood 1985), these creative processes and the negotiations that marginalised artists/voices undertake while they are creating new work.

Further, this special issue recognises the ongoing reinvention and regeneration of the cultural sectors in the Global North, while aiming to examine the grassroots efforts that are contributing to these changes. These efforts could refer to new economic, artistic, and/or social initiatives that are revitalising the sector from the bottom up. We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines including cultural studies, performance studies, sociology, and anthropology that take the form of articles (4000-6000 words) or reflections (1000-2000 words) in response to one or more of the following questions:

1) Using recent attempts to diversify cultural institutions in the Global North as a point of departure, what processual value does the mainstreaming of marginalised artists/voices add to the cultural sector as a whole?
2) How do multiple axes of oppression manifest in creative artistic processes?
3) What strategies of survival do marginalised artists/voices use to create and showcase work in a cultural space dominated by hegemonic institutions?
4) Through engaging cultural production, how have marginalised artists/voices instigated institutional and structural change?
5) How do the recent calls to decolonise culture and public spaces contribute to imagining alternative cultural spaces, and generating new modes of cultural production?

Abstracts (250 words) with a title and a short bio (100 words) should be sent to the editors: Roaa (roaa.ali@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:roaa.ali@manchester.ac.uk>) and Asif (asif.majid@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:asif.majid@manchester.ac.uk>) by 1st of September 2019. We expect that contributors will submit first drafts by February 2020, but we are happy to extend this – please let us know and we can negotiate a new submission date. After receiving editorial and peer-reviewed feedback, second drafts are due by July 2020, with an expected publication date of September 2020. We may be able to accept submissions in languages other than English, please contact Roaa for more details or if you have any questions.

The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.hw.ac.uk%2Findex.php%2FIPED%2Findex&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=OgAOd7EEypXV4ua1%2FjY1LRWrsDU0INgUL0BhTj190%2FY%3D&amp;reserved=0> (IPED) <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.hw.ac.uk%2Findex.php%2FIPED%2Findex&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=OgAOd7EEypXV4ua1%2FjY1LRWrsDU0INgUL0BhTj190%2FY%3D&amp;reserved=0> is an open access journal open to academics and practitioners globally.

References
Conquergood, Dwight. 1985. “Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance.” Literature in Performance 5 (2): 1–13. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1080%2F10462938509391578&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=bGqfAWG37P7wK8gb91e6w3aKBcrx4kJhcnNlfXIJi6M%3D&amp;reserved=0
Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS). 2016. “Creative industries: Focus on Employment”. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F534305%2FFocus_on_Employment_revised_040716.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=FvhXhjtiuWRg0nqNVC4cqFV6X2%2BUDDaYb8iS8UdieF4%3D&amp;reserved=0
Hunt, Darnell, Ana-Christina Ramón, and Michael Tran. 2019. “Hollywood Diversity Report.” UCLA. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsocialsciences.ucla.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FUCLA-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2019-2-21-2019.pdfhttps%3A%2F%2Fsocialsciences.ucla.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FUCLA-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2019-2-21-2019.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Cd4caec0505334610f24908d6d3425bee%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C636928679311447230&amp;sdata=qze0DWDtG5sNYoVJmOGIsHfhkwZbi2AkMM4uxDHRQOU%3D&amp;reserved=0

The Re:generations Conference Committee invites practitioners, researchers, and practitioner-researchers to contribute to this year’s theme of The Digital Space. By offering opportunities to reflect on cultural and artistic innovation through digital technologies, the conference aims to celebrate, enable, create conditions for exchange, be an ambassador for dance of the African Diaspora in the UK and beyond, and advocate for leadership within dance. We are seeking a wide range of contributors (papers, videos or panel discussions) from across the sector. The Committee welcomes ideas for presentations in person or via digital formats, that are accessible and rigorous in order to stimulate lively discussion.
We welcome proposals on the following topics may include, but not limited to:

* Digital Networks across Diasporic spaces and artistic practices

* Use of Social Media Digital Platforms: as transmitting, appropriating, &/or pedagogical spaces

* Impact of Technology and the Futuristic Space &/or Afrofuturism

* Digital Archive and the African/Caribbean/Africanist/Diasporic spaces

* Dance Science, mental and physical health in Diasporic spaces and dance knowledge

* Dance, the Internet and Popular Culture

* Sustainability of the Dance of the African Diaspora sector in the 21st Century

* Dance Education and Pedagogy
For more detailed information please read the full call for papers attached.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 10 May 2019. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of June 2019. Submissions can be made online at https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FRegen19Call&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Caa53faf2a803422233e008d6cf528df5%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C1%7C636924350822838966&amp;sdata=eAEMqR2maH8e1UosIxgv9JhYZ45RrHjM8KdOF%2F4MobE%3D&amp;reserved=0. A Conference registration fee reduction will be on offer to independent artists/scholars, students, and One Dance UK members. More information on conference fees and logistics will be provided on the One Dance UK website at https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.onedanceuk.org%2Fevent%2Fregenerations-2019%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGlenn.Odom%40ROEHAMPTON.AC.UK%7Caa53faf2a803422233e008d6cf528df5%7C5fe650635c3747fbb4cce42659e607ed%7C0%7C0%7C636924350822838966&amp;sdata=LUd12Zh3KCwqCDHeRrnJvWB5zAodz%2BZ%2FTgL0QB5pa%2Bo%3D&amp;reserved=0.

Pedro de Senna
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Theatre
Programme Leader BA (Hons) Theatre Arts (Theatre Directing)

Middlesex University
The Burroughs, Hendon
London
NW4 4BT

p.desenna@mdx.ac.uk<mailto:p.desenna>
+44 (0)208 4116376

Glenn Odom
Associate Editor Studies in Theatre and Performance
Reader
University of Roehampton | London | SW15
Office hours Mondays 12:40-1:40 and by appointment